Fox News cuts off Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson after she won’t name one program she’d cut

Johnson tweeted earlier that day that she and Neil Cavuto will “discuss the #FiscalCliff and what we [Democrats] want to see in the deal.”

However, it appears that Cavuto and Johnson wanted to talk about quite different things.

While the Dallas Democrat kept trying to turn the discussion to revenue generators, Cavuto demanded to know what cuts she would agree to in the Federal budget.

The exchange continued to get heated,with Johnson telling Cavuto that if he would “just shut up” she would try to talk of cuts. Yet, when given the change, the congresswoman seemed to have an “oops moment” worthy of Rick Perry and could not come up with a single cut.

The awkward exchange continued, reports POLITICO, until Johnson said that Democrats have already made their stance on what cuts they would consider. At that point, Cavuto called the interview a waste of time and went to commercial.

He later apologized to his viewers and Johnson, but maintained that he just wanted a simple answer.

“But that’s all I wanted. A simple answer. What would you cut?” he said.